lordgrinz

They should also take away their ability to operate as Taxi drivers, they've proven themselves unworthy.

Watching the drama in the RTP Mafia is like watching a daytime soap opera.

I fully know where I am, Thai Bureaucratic Hell.

Yup, not sending a single baht into my Thai account until I am in danger of falling below the 400,000 level.......crossing my fingers that I have enough to last me a while, or at least until all the smoke clears.

Like you, I don't understand the attraction here, if not for my wife and daughter, I would be out of here forever. This is the biggest cesspool I have ever seen, I mean there are some horrible places (inner cities) in the USA too, but I lived in a rural town in the NE where comfortable/safe living is the norm. Now throw these Thai tax changes in the list of annoyances of living here? This place then becomes what I can only describe as Hell on Earth to someone like me, I hate it here with a passion!

Welcome to the 3rd World.

The RTP is the "hub" of corruption, Big Joke is no exception, its endemic (not only in the RTP, but in Thai culture).

"...I never broke the law, I AM THE LAW!"

I'm calling BS, I'll believe it when I see it, I haven't seen a single vehicle or driver enforced rule/law since I got here 8 years ago......this is a declaration to please the masses, but has no teeth, especially since there isn't a police force to enforce it.

See this behavior every day, I assume most Thai drivers are trying to commit suicide. Until proper road tests are conducted and administered by qualified instructors/evaluators, this bloodbath and property damage will continue. But none of that will matter if they don't make the RTP get out of their air conditioned shacks and on to the streets enforcing road rules/laws.

The Royalist Elite, and their military muscle.

That doesn't look like a "Tuk Tuk" it looks like a "songthaew".

If the perp were snuffed out tomorrow, I wouldn't lose a second of sleep over it, no matter who did the good deed.

So it worked exactly the way it was supposed to, good.

If he doesn't watch out..... a black van, a belly full of cement, and a river bottom might be his next stop.

I agree, all countries should not allow foreigners to own land if they are not citizens.

Inching closer to a Civil War, to tell you the truth, I think it's inevitable......but needed.

I'm biting the bullet too for now. Cleaning the house and cars, doing laundry, walking the dog, exercising, taking care of my daughter through middle school while my wife gets the glory working as a director in higher education at a hospital in Bangkok. But I am now catching up on a lot more reading, just purchased a new Kindle (6 books this month alone) 😉

I don't even understand what the endgame in Ukraine is, they aren't going to win, if anything this could eventually spark a World War (with a NUCLEAR POWER!). If the West had stayed out of politics in Ukraine back when it was under different rulers, this would never have happened. We shouldn't have been screwing around in Russia's backyard to begin with, anyone with half a brain would have known Putin would annex Crimea where he had an important military base to protect. This whole thing at this point is nothing more than a cash grab for the military industrial complex and politicians looking to grab their share of loot in the process. Meanwhile people are dying in this lost proxy war, and the cost to rebuild after it is all done will be worse yet.

10,000 Euros a month? Out of my league....LOL But yes, worried about the cost failure, family hating it there, and me being 55 is not exactly a great age to find work after spending the last 3 years unemployed (My employer got bought out while I was here as a digital nomad, I was let go in the transition - took 3 years for the new owners to get rid of me though....LOL)

AMEN! I just wish my wife would make the choice to leave, I decided forcing her to do so would not be a good choice, it has to be her choice. But I personally hate our life here, I just want to go back home where I can drive, walk, cross a road in peace and safety. To where the air and water are clean, people follow rules and laws, and life is not so fast paced, get back to hiking, camping, and fishing back in the rural USA. My daughter would also gain from not growing up in this cesspool of selfish people, mass-corruption, pollution and lawlessness.

Now they've just stepped over the boundary, your masters will be very disappointed! You wouldn't want to become like the Philippines to the Chinese, the Chinese don't play very nice.

Really?! In Thailand it's the Modus Operandi of the RTP, there is nothing "allegedly" about it.

Who brought the Arabs into this?

Probably because their "major" cities are dumps.